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To the list of great American child narrators that includes Huck
Finn and Scout Finch, let us now add Reuben "Rube" Land, the
asthmatic 11-year-old boy at the center of Leif Enger's remarkable first
novel, Peace Like a River. Rube recalls the events of his childhood,
in small-town Minnesota circa 1962, in a voice that perfectly captures
the poetic, verbal stoicism of the northern Great Plains. "Here's
what I saw," Rube warns his readers. "Here's how it went.
Make of it what you will." And Rube sees plenty.
Our panel:
Ruth Ruder
Michelle Walsh
Katherine Hale
Chuck Alvey
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Also
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Penguins
and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols ; Harold Shaw Pub; February
18, 2003
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